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Gardening Like A Professional With Modest Means

Gardening like a professional with modest means.
You don’t really have to be a professional gardener to grow quality, vibrant, healthy and full of life vegetables.
Mother nature is so rich, and so freely giving, that we could never exhaust her of the never ending resources she has. The only thing we need to learn is how to receive and take from her.
And we also need to refresh and revive back to a nutritious state the garden plots that we use, by composting, to help the soil to get fertile again, through natural means.
If the soil is depleted of the best nutrients it used to offer, the first impulse would be to apply some chemically based fertilizer, but that’s obviously not the best solution.
The land is so over fertilized in the lands where the produce is grown, and we purchase it from the supermarket shelf, they are hardly safe to eat anymore. You don’t know what kind and how much fertilizer and pesticides was used!
So, why not start your own Garden and grow your own fruits and vegetables, if you don’t have one already. Especially today, when most of our produce is coming from imports, and we don’t have a clue how were they grown!
We don’t need to poison our bodies with chemical fertilizers, fungicides and pesticides.
The best way to make the soil fertile is through natural means. Let’s think of the forest, where the trees have grown and survived for hundreds of years. They even survived fires, and revived again stronger then before. Why?

Because of it’s ability to replenish the nutrients by its natural means, without the intervention of the humans. The trees are dropping the dead limbs, and the leaves that decompose, and turns back into the soil, with the help of rain, wind, sun, heat, and our little invisible friends, the micro organisms that feed on them, and thus turn the decaying leaves into humus. That’s what the plants need. Humus.And that’s what we should do for the soil in our own garden. Collect the leaves from one year to another, have a pile in a corner of the garden, and let it decay. Just turn it now and then with a pitch fork, and you’ll have the best natural fertilizer possible. For Free!

Some people are burning the leaves. Well, if they don’t have a garden it’s OK, I guess. But if they do have a garden, and they burn the leaves, and then they go to the supply store to buy that expensive chemical fertilizer, that’s a mistake. But, hey, who knows, maybe they have money to burn!

As for you folks, who are passionate about gardening and want to save the leaves, that’s like money in your pocket, as well as prime quality fruits and vegetables, much safer to eat.

If you have also access to some cow manure, that’s perfect. But the leaves are the cheapest and smartest way to make your own compost.

There are a lot of ways to make your own compost, of course, sea grass, seaweeds, ground oyster shells, peanut hulls, grass clippings, etc. But the leaves are the cheapest and the most readily available.

Spread your compost on top of the soil, till it in and reap the benefits of an abundant crop of fresh, vibrant, healthy, and happy fruits and vegetables of your own garden.

Live smart, healthy, and well.

Happy Gardening!

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July 26th, 2010 | Category: Gardening

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